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Paul Jennings was born in Heston near London, and at the age of 6 emigrated to Melbourne, Australia on a boat. He was on the boat for 5 weeks with his family. He attended Bentleigh West Primary School and Caulfield Grammar School.

After graduating from school, he went to Frankston Teachers College and became a teacher. He taught students at Frankston State School, Kangaroo Flat State School, the Turana Youth Training Centre, and the Royal Children's Hospital State School in Mount Eliza. He later went on to study at the Lincoln Institute of Health Science and became a speech pathologist, then worked as a Lecturer in Special Education at Burwood State College . In 1979 he became Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature at Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education .

In 1985, Jennings' first book of short stories, Unreal! was published, during which he worked as a lecturer and wrote part-time; in 1989, he made the decision to devote his full time to writing. Many of his short stories, published between 1985 and 1991, were also adapted into the first and second series of the popular Australian television show Round the Twist.

Winner of the Dromkeen Medal .

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Paul Jennings

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The Gizmo

Unbearable!

Unmentionable!

Wicked!

The Cabbage Patch Fib

The Paw Thing

Come Back Gizmo

The Cabbage Patch War

Grandad's Gifts

Don't Look Now

A Different Land

Reading Bug

Rascal The Dragon

Unbelievable!

Rascal in Trouble

La garra

Rascal at the Show

Rascal's Trick

Rascal and the Hot Air Balloon

Don't Look Now Book 1: Falling For It and The Kangapoo Key Ring